International conference “The Dialogue of Three Cultures and our European Heritage”
2 September 2007 - 5 September 2007
Austria
What is the European Union of 2006? What is it about the Europe of now that has enabled longstanding enmities to be subdued and replaced with collaboration and a communal perspective?
Is what we have created in the Europe of 2006 new? Or can we find patterns in long past developments in Europe that resonate in the situation of the Europe of today?
In our continents turbulent sea of history, can we find islands of calm, where dialogue, tolerance and a shared vision effectively overcame the significant and violent cultural divides of the time, and so left us with a lasting collective heritage? Do the perspectives of the past carry any relevant messages for the re-emergent cultural intolerances of today?
The theme of the 2007 conference “The Dialogue of Three Cultures and our European Heritage” and the location in Toledo, are absolutely central to all of these issues. Some may argue, that what we consider as our present day ‘common European culture and heritage’, has an origin earlier than the flowering of the Italian renaissance: that the renaissance had roots in an earlier era of dialogue, tolerance and cultural development that was prevalent in parts of the Al Andalus of the Iberia of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries. Moreover, it may be no exaggeration to see Toledo as the crucible of the culture and the dawn of renaissance in Europe at that time.
Toledo and the work of the ‘School of Translators’, played a monumentally significant part in the creation of our European scientific heritage. Toledo as a centre of tolerance, was a magnet for leading European scholars of the time, who were able to work without the constraints of the political and cultural divisions of the day, and who were thus able to focus on the pursuit and transfer of knowledge of the significant advances made in the sciences, arts and humanities, medicine, culture, and technology of the wider Islamic world, diffusing these innovations out into a wider European culture.
Our conference in 2007, will seek to expose the most relevant scientific and cultural developments and perspectives of that period in history to a modern dialogue of cultures.
The event is open to all with an interest. Some bursaries are available. Full information is on the website of the Academy (www.acadeuro.org)The Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) is a charitable trust that was founded in 1988 and has over 2100 elected members - all eminent international scholars from all countries in Europe and covering all discplines of the sciences, humanities and letters.
Full information on the event and about the Academy can be found on www.acadeuro.org
Is what we have created in the Europe of 2006 new? Or can we find patterns in long past developments in Europe that resonate in the situation of the Europe of today?
In our continents turbulent sea of history, can we find islands of calm, where dialogue, tolerance and a shared vision effectively overcame the significant and violent cultural divides of the time, and so left us with a lasting collective heritage? Do the perspectives of the past carry any relevant messages for the re-emergent cultural intolerances of today?
The theme of the 2007 conference “The Dialogue of Three Cultures and our European Heritage” and the location in Toledo, are absolutely central to all of these issues. Some may argue, that what we consider as our present day ‘common European culture and heritage’, has an origin earlier than the flowering of the Italian renaissance: that the renaissance had roots in an earlier era of dialogue, tolerance and cultural development that was prevalent in parts of the Al Andalus of the Iberia of the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth centuries. Moreover, it may be no exaggeration to see Toledo as the crucible of the culture and the dawn of renaissance in Europe at that time.
Toledo and the work of the ‘School of Translators’, played a monumentally significant part in the creation of our European scientific heritage. Toledo as a centre of tolerance, was a magnet for leading European scholars of the time, who were able to work without the constraints of the political and cultural divisions of the day, and who were thus able to focus on the pursuit and transfer of knowledge of the significant advances made in the sciences, arts and humanities, medicine, culture, and technology of the wider Islamic world, diffusing these innovations out into a wider European culture.
Our conference in 2007, will seek to expose the most relevant scientific and cultural developments and perspectives of that period in history to a modern dialogue of cultures.
The event is open to all with an interest. Some bursaries are available. Full information is on the website of the Academy (www.acadeuro.org)The Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) is a charitable trust that was founded in 1988 and has over 2100 elected members - all eminent international scholars from all countries in Europe and covering all discplines of the sciences, humanities and letters.
Full information on the event and about the Academy can be found on www.acadeuro.org